What you can achieve or what you are capable of is taken away simply because you are a woman.
Women Quotes
This is a large page and a mixed one. Feminist theory, nineteenth-century verse, comedy and plain contempt sit side by side, and the source line is how you tell them apart. Warren Farrell has the most entries, then Shakespeare, Camille Paglia and Mignon McLaughlin.
Some of the best-sourced entries are the plainest. Betty Friedan, in The Feminine Mystique (1963): “The problem lay buried, unspoken for many years in the minds of American women.” Shulamith Firestone, in The Dialectic of Sex (1970), argued that women and love are underpinnings, and that examining them threatens the whole structure of a culture. Dorothy Parker, in Enough Rope (1926), observed that men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
Two statements that are regularly credited to Catharine MacKinnon are flagged here as misattributed. If you are checking one of them, the notes on its page are the place to start.
“I think people more easily dismiss a woman in the workplace or try to put women down,”
Bring out the women. They have the ability and the strength. They are able to excel.
She's sixteen years old-a young woman in a city with blue mountains. (first line)
I used to be part of Better Life For Rural Women with the late Maryam Babangida.
Breaking into and making my mark as a woman in politics was tough
A measured and God-fearing woman not usually given to such outbursts